1. Landslides involve

(A)Downslope movement of individual rock blocks which is usually not perceptible.


(B)Rapid perceptible movement of relatively dry mass of earth debris or bed rock.


(C)Slow to very rapid movement of water saturated rock debris.


(D)Slow-flowing downslope masses of rock debris saturated with water.


2. Which of the following pairs is not a correct match of desert and country/ continent

(A)America


desert


Sonoran West Asia


Great Victorian desert Australia

3. One of the proponents of the turbidity current theory of the origin of submarine canyons was


(A)Daly


(B)Dana


(C)Salis


Gregory



4. The term panplane refers to


level surface formed in the old age of fluvial cycle


level surface formed by wind erosion


plain formed by marine action


plain formed by joining of flood-plains



5. In the process of erosion, the removal of material by solution is called

(A)Attrition


Corrasion


(C)Corrosion


Sapping



6. Arrange the solar spectrum in ascending order of its wavelength

(a)Ultraviolet


(b)Microwaves


X-rays


(d)Television waves


Codes














7. Energy that is reflected by the atmosphere

(A)does not heat the atmosphere


(B)has a different wavelength than the incoming energy


usually short energy like visible light which does not penetrate the atmosphere


(D)heats the atmosphere by absorption



8. Which one of the following statements about the polar jet stream is not true

moves northwards during summer.


supplies energy to the circulation of surface storms.


(C)Its location roughly coincides with that of the polar front.


(D)Its velocity is greater during summer.

9. The percentage of water vapour in the air in the tropical regions may be as high as

percent


percent


percent


percent



10. The vertical air flow in an anticyclone results in

(A)diversion aloft


(B)conversion aloft


(C)diversion both aloft and at the surface


(D)convergence at the surface and divergence aloft



11. The most common salt in the ocean is

(A)Calcium chloride


(B)Sodium nitrate


(C)Sodium chloride


(D)Calcium nitrate



12. In the hydrological cycle evaporation is preceded by

(A)Clouds


(B)Precipitation


Heat


(D)Condensation



13. Which of the following occupies Trophic Level I in food chain

Bacteria


(B)Carnivores


(C)Primary consumers


(D)Plants



14. Which of the following regions is known as the 'carbon sink' of the globe

Antarctica


(B)Savanna


(C)N.W. Europe


(D)Tropical rainforest



15. Ecological Niche refers to

(A)Interaction between man and environment


(B)The functional role of an organism in the ecosystem


(C)Interdependence of man and plant


(D)None of the above



16. Who among the following expounded the concept that "the present is the key to the past"

(A)Buffon


Lyell


(C)Hutton


Playfair



17. The approach that some of the geographical facts according to Ritter, cannot be explained scientifically, is termed as

(A)Ecological


(B)Regional


(C)Teleological


(D)Locational



18. Whose pioneer statement on the scope and method of modern geography, according to Hartshorne, set the direction of geographic thought for the future

Blache


(B)Schluter


(C)Ratzel


(D)Richthofen



19. Who among the following geographers emphasized the predominant role of climate in human life

(A)Geddes


(B)Jefferson


(C)Huntington


(D)Brunhes

20. Who is usually given the credit for establishing the validity of the idea that there was an ice age during which ice sheets covered much of northern Europe

Agassiz


Ramsay


(C)Jukes


Penck



21. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion and the other labelled as Reason Select your answer from the codes given below

Assertion The metropolitan cities are numerically dominated by male adult population.

Reason Migration is age and sex selective.

Codes

(A)Both and are correct and is the correct explanation of


(B)Both and are correct but is not the correct explanation of


is correct, but is false.


is false, but is correct.



22. The percentage of Aged population to the total population in India lies between

5


5 10


12


12 15



23. Which of the following migration streams experiences the maximum migration in India

(A)Rural to Rural


(B)Rural to Urban


(C)Urban to Urban


(D)Urban to Rural



24. Which one of the following describes a projected urbanised world or universal city by the end of 21st Century

Conurbation


(B)City-Region


Megalopolis


(D)Ecumenopolis



25. Which one of the following indicates 'Random' distribution of settlements

(A)0.49


1.00


(C)1.59


2.15



26. The stretchability of resource refers to

(A)The ability to find adequate substitution


(B)Susceptibility to destruction


(C)Ability to produce greater yields


(D)Non-exhaustibility



27. Which one of the following sequences of land use according to Von Thunen's model is correct

(A)Market gardening and fresh milk, firewood and lumber, intensive crop farming


(B)Firewood and lumber, intensive crop farming, market gardening and fresh milk


(C)Intensive crop farming, market gardening and fresh milk, firewood and lumber


(D)Market gardening and fresh milk, intensive crop farming, firewood and lumber



28. Resource creation is the result of

(A)interaction of natural and cultural processes


(B)interaction of different natural processes


(C)interaction of different social processes


(D)interaction of different economic processes

29. The final stage in the process of energy resource utilization is

(A)Transport


(B)Storage


(C)Disposal of waste material


(D)Conversion



30. Who among the following developed the sequential expansion transport network model

Souza and Porter


(B)Brown and Bracey


(C)Myrdal, Seers and Rostow


(D)Taaffe, Morrill and Gould



31. The concept of the Geographical Pivot of History was proposed by

(A)Mickinder


(B)Martin


(C)Kropotkin


(D)Ratzel



32. Which of the following categories does Chile belong to, according to shape

(A)Fragmented


(B)Fragmented cum elongated


(C)Elongated


(D)Compact cum elongated



33. The number of children dying in the first year of their birth per thousand live birth in a year is called

(A)Death rate


(B)Standardised mortality rate


(C)Infant mortality rate


(D)Life expectancy rate



34. Which one of the following arrangements of States in descending order of literacy rates according to 2011 Census is correct

(A)Kerala, Mizoram, Tripura, Goa


(B)Kerala, Goa, Mizoram, Tripura


Kerala, Tripura, Mizoram


(D)Mizoram, Tripura, Kerala, Goa



35. Which one of the following is related to Tribal Economy

Intensive cultivation


(B)Footloose Industry


(C)Mining and Quarrying


(D)Shifting cultivation



36. What are the bases of agro-climatic regionalization proposed by the Planning Commission of India

(A)Relief, soil and drainage


(B)Rainfall, temperature and cropped area


(C)Vegetation, soil and land use


(D)Relief, land use and Net sown Area



37. Which category of regions does metropolitan region belongs to

(A)Formal region


(B)Functional region


(C)Single purpose region


(D)Natural region



38. Who among the following attempted division of India into planning regions

O.H.K. Spate


(B)L.D. Stamp


(C)R.L. Singh


(D)R.P. Misra



39. In which of the Five Year Plans regional imbalance was given prominence for the first time

(A)First


Second


(C)Third


Fourth



40. Which one of the following is not the ingredient of sustainable development

Intergeneration transferability


(B)Social Justice


(C)Inter-regional Transferability


(D)Non-optimal resource utilization

41. The main species of the coniferous forests of the Himalayas between the altitudes 1600 metres and 3300 metres are

Cedar, Pine, Sine, Silverfir, Spruce


(B)Sagon and Sakhu


(C)Sandalwood, Rosewood


Chestnut, Chir, Chil



42. The Bundelkhand plateau covers parts of which two of the following States

(A)Chhattisgarh Jharkhand


(B)Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh


(C)Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh


(D)Madhya Pradesh Chhattisgarh



43. Which of the following places in India ranks second among the coldest inhabited places in the world

(A)Dras


Itanagar


(C)Manali


Mana



44. Which of the following States has the highest percentage of its agricultural area under canal irrigation

Madhya Pradesh


(B)Jammu Kashmir


(C)Uttarakhand


Uttar Pradesh



45. Which of the following ranges separates the Kashmir Valley from the Indus River Valley

(A)Pir Panjal Range


(B)Dhauladhar Range


(C)Great Himalayan Range


(D)Siwalik Range



46. Which one of the following methods is suitable to represent the proportions of different land uses in a region

Line graph


(B)Pie diagram


(C)Hythergraph


(D)Triangular diagram



47. The dot method of distribution refers to

(A)Iconic Model


(B)Analogue Model


(C)Symbolic Model


(D)Graphical Model



48. Which one of the following is a relative measure of dispersion

Standard deviation


(B)Quartile deviation


(C)Coefficient of variation


(D)Range



49. If a map is drawn on RF 1/5500, which one of the following representative fractions will be correct if the map is reduced to half

(A)1/2750


1/11,000





1/33,000



50. Consider the following statements and select the correct answer using the codes given below

NASA is the national acquisition and distribution agency for all satellite data in India.

NASA sends the de-coded data to the NNRMS whose activities are guided by various Standing Committees.

Codes

(A)Only is correct.


(B)Only is correct.


(C)Both and are correct.


(D)Neither nor is correct.